2020 Photo Challenge #11

March’s theme / technique: Being Creative with texture

The six visual keys to a great photograph are:

    • Patterns
    • Texture
    • Lines
    • Light
    • Depth of field
    • Space

This month we are going to look at textures. While the structure of an object is its form, the material from which it is made constitutes its texture. Is it hard or soft, smooth or rough?  You are aiming at translating texture visually, bringing life and energy to a photo through shape, tone and colour. Study the texture and forget about the object. Texture becomes the subject here.

    • Try contrasting rough against smooth
    • Shoot at different times of the day. Does it change the effect?
    • Capture details – like the fibres in a rope or a carpet.
    • Try altering the angle of light to avoid flat and dull images. You might be able to do this with your editing software too.
    • Use different angles to discover how much texture appears.
This week's assignment - Play with angles. This might mean getting down on your stomach to shoot upwards. Or zoom in to focus on the texture and not the subject itself.

This photograph was taken at a close distance and focused on the texture. You are probably not sure what this object actually is from this perspective.

Zoom out a little and we can see that it is an unusual flower. The Red Sugarbush (a Protea) has bright pink flowers that never fully open, they remain looking like buds half open.

If you would like to join in with the 2020 photo challenge then please take a look at my 2020 Photo Challenge page. No complicated rules, just a camera required 🙂

    • Create your own post with some information about how you composed the shot.
    • Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
    • Add the tag #2020PhotoChallenge so everyone can find your entry easily in the WP Reader
    • Get your post(s) in by the end of the month, as the new theme comes out on the first Sunday in April.

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I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

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  4. I never guessed what this flower was till you backed off to show us. What a lovely hairy looking monster it is from close up and a glorious colour. Here’s mine from Sydney. I may be “anonymous” again as I have to do it on the desk top as I don’t know how to insert links in the Ipad…

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  6. Fantastic! I thought it was a ginger cat- a bit like Bagpuss 🙂 🙂 I think I’ll be finding time to join you soon. Hope you can get out to play in the garden.

        1. Well that was a short break 😂 I think that if you have something to write about then do, no obligation to do it every week.

    2. Managed a trip to a local garden today in lovely warm sunshine, but it seems that it might be the last day out for now as the govt are wanting us to restrict going out. So annoying as we enter the warmer weather and the rate of infection is very low here in Cornwall. For now.

        1. 😕 I can’t see why we can’t still go to the beach – plenty of space to physically distance ourselves.

        2. I think we’re going to be disobedient 🙂 🙂 Instructions here are currently to keep to groups of less than 5.

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